In a world that can be filled with happiness-faith-love-and all the good things...it sure can switch gears and turn dark just as fast as it can be light. It can be filled with death-pain-tears-and hurt. Life can challenge us and change us...we find ourselves struggling and barely able to hold on...I am a firm believer that LIFE tends to always find its own way...a way that leaves us at time with endless WHY's...It can knock the wind right out of us and rock us to our core. It will slam us down and almost feel like its pinnin us to the ground-so we can't get up...It can be very ugly and dirty at times...filled with tears fears and fustration...YET we CARRY ON...YET we RISE...YET we BELIEVE...why??
I think it has something to do with HOPE...in fact I know it does...HOPE is that smile thru tears. HOPE is that will to rise after being constantly knocked down. HOPE is having faith the tide will turn. HOPE is believing in a better tomorrow. HOPE is not giving up no matter how bad it gets...I believe that humans are amazing beings...that can endure and carry on...no matter how hard of the fall or how long of the fall...It takes a lot of rain to make a rainbow. It takes a lot of rain to bring you out of a drough. And trust me the rain is well worth it in the end....things happen-we fail...we fall...people get sick...people struggle...people hurt..people die...BUT we smile again...we laugh...we love...we heal...we endure...we embrace...we grow...we learn...we rise...we try...we carry on...because life is worth it...and without the darkness...without the loss...without the tears...we will never know the true value of life...it takes major events sometimes to open our eyes...to change us...sometimes its found in death...we learn to value life...to speak the love we carry for one another...sometimes its found in a loss of a job to get us back on track...sometimes thru a child...and other times its found in watching someone fight against the odds to live...to survive...and succeed...all the while their actions bring us HOPE...sometimes they don't win the fight...sometimes the fight is only won for awhile and they find themselves fighting again...
Yet what we don't realize...its not about winning or losing...its about the willing to fight...the will to give everything we have to this life...and with out HOPE...I know this much for sure...it would be a short and quick fight-yet I am not just referring to illness or death..its something we have to do each and every day...in every second and moment...Faith Hope and Love...there's a reason why those words are always found together....because you can't have one without the other two....they are linked together...and because of those three things...life has endless meaning.
"More than anything I want to trust in a journey that I don't understand."
"I write entirely to find out what I am thinking & feeling, what I am looking at, what I see and what it means. What I want and what I fear."
"Loving you changed my life. It should come as no surprise that losing you has done the same."
"I am living proof that a shattered heart can still beat.:
"I am living proof that a shattered heart can still beat.:
LOVEthisLiFE
- Michelle
- "Life lies in the JOURNEY not the Destination." Everyday I awake to embrace the day I have been given. Thru times of struggle and in happiness--I find reasons each and everyday to LOVEthisLIFE.
Every story is one to be heard....
"You have been given the chance to live, so LIVE."
"Your soul knows the geography of your destiny. Your soul alone has the map of your future. Therefore, you can trust this indirect, oblique side of yourself. If you do, it will take you where you need to go. But more importantly it will teach you a kindness of rhythm in your journey."
"Those who love you are not fooled by mistakes you have made or dark images you hold about yourself. They remember your beauty when you feel ugly, your wholeness when you are broken, your innocence when you feel guilty and your purpose when you are confused."
"I may not have gone where I intended to go - but I believe I have ended up where I needed to be."
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"When I was 5 years old, my mother always told me that happiness was the key to life. When I went to school, they asked me what I wanted to be when I grew up. I wrote down 'happy.' They told me - I didn't understand the assignment, and I told them they didn't understand life."
"If you cry because the sun has gone out of your life, your tears will prevent you from seeing the stars."
"Some people just live life in a way that well seems against the grain - never taking the paved way the easy way never living to the checklist of life...but maybe just maybe they are seeking a little bit more from life."
"All of your life is about growing into your personal best...all of your life is about growing into greatness."
"When something bad happens, you have three choices...you can either let it define you, let it destroy you OR you can let it strengthen you."
"I ask not for a lighter burden, but for broader shoulders."
"Do one thing everyday that scares the complete shit out of you."
"Try to be like a turlte, at ease in your own shell."
"There is a great mystery that none of us will get until that last breath and EVERYTHING will become VERY CLEAR."
"There is something beautiful about all scars of whatever nature. A scar means the hurt is over, the wound is closed and healed, done with."
"Overcome the notion that you must be regular it robs you of the chance to be extraordinary."
"Too much has been given much is required. You must do something for the greater good to show your gratefulness for the blessings in your life."
"The CHALLENGE of my LIFE is to see how far I can take it."
"There are things that we don't want to happen but have to accept, things we don't want to know but have to learn, and people we can't live without but have to let go."
Never ask, "What reason do I have to be happy?" Instead ask, "To what purpose can I attach my happiness?"
"Maybe mistakes are what makes our fate - without them what would shape our lives? Maybe if we never veered off course we wouldn't be who we are now."
"The turning point in the process of growing up is when you discover the core of strength within you that survives all hurt."
"Michelangelo said the best way to judge the essential elements of a sculpture is to throw it down a hill and the unimportant pieces will breake away. Sometimes life is like that. It tosses us down a hill. But when we reach the bottom and only the important things are left, that's when our vision clears. That's when we hold on tight to what we know, while hope stirs inside us. It's all a matter of perspective."
"Clouds come floating into my life, no longer to carry rain or usher storm but to add color to my sunset sky."
"Even if I knew that tomorrow the world would go to pieces - I would still plant my apple tree."
"Turn your wounds into wisdom and your mess into your message."
"Even a happy life cannot be without a measure of darkness, the word happy would lose its meaning if it were not balanced by sadness."
"Your task is not to seek for love, but merely to seek & find all the barriers within yourself that you have built against it."
"Thousands of candles can be lighted from a single candle and the life of the candle will not be shortened. Happiness never decreases by being shared."
"It is impossible to win the race unless you venture to run, impossible to win the victory unless you dare to battle."
"The foolish man seeks happiness in the distance, the wise grows it under his feet."
"When you find the way others will find you. Passing by on the road they will be drawn to your door. The way that cannot be heard will be echoed in your voice. The way that cannot be seen will be reflected in your eyes." -Choose your own journey even if it means taking a path no one ever has.
"The truth is that our finest moments are most likely to occur when we are feeling deeply uncomfortable, unhappy or unfulfilled. For it is only in such moments, propelled by our discomfort that we are likely to step out of our ruts and start searching for different ways or truer anwsers."
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